It's Not a Stick

Due to many factors, the main one being procrastination, the planting of the Plumeria was a little late this year. Here it is on day one. As I was out this morning watering it, a friendly golfer asked me why I was watering a stick. Every year there is much discussion on whether the Plumeria is really dead. (Pretty much, everyone but me thinks it is dead)

Jacob's parents gave me the plant a few years ago. It is always so satisfying when the leaves appear, because it does look like a stick. The plant was growing all cattywampus, so I broke off a few pieces and planted them in other areas. There are all kinds of directions on how to root the pieces. I even saw the highly recommended Root Boost at Ace Hardware There are recommended soils, but I went with the "just stick them in the ground" method.

 Is cattywampus a real word? If so, how do you spell it?
Here's hoping the Plumeria survives another.

HDOF

I told Barry he is not giving me much material lately.

So I am just going to share a "how to" video from Hairdresser On Fire.

Big Mama recommended this blog the other day, and I have been perusing it ever since.

Mother's Day -The Sequel

Many of you have asked, what did Lucy give you for Mother's Day? Actually, no on has asked, but she did have a gift for her mother and grandmothers. She is such a thoughtful four month old.

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How is she going to top that on Father's Day?

Mother's Day

My Mother's Day began with this video

The Houston family will be up to see us soon. 

The local family all came over for a swim. Actually Mike and Sharon were in the metroplex. Sharon came to visit her mom, and Mike came to visit his little brother. We enjoyed having them. Come back soon!

Mike and Sharon were happy to be here ( I am sure), I just caught them while they were listening to a story. Note to self: compose photos better.

Barry began his day cleaning the pool and heating it up to a perfect 85 degrees.

 Then he cooked. How did I get so lucky?

Ben and Scarlett jumped right in when they got here.

Barry and Mike joined them. Who is that masked man?

Me, Barry, Mike, Miles, Michelle, Shannon, Ben, Brett, Scarlett

Thanks for a great Mother's Day, family.

I love you all.

Jacob Had a Birthday, Too

Monday was our son-in-law, Jacob's birthday. Jacob is an attorney in Houston, and I know he thinks he has married into a looneytoon family.

Once when all the family was in Mexico, Barry and Jacob decided to "escape" the rest of the family and go sightseeing. My words, not theirs.

They chose X-Caret. That should tell you something about our family vacations. They spent the day with thousands of strangers rather than their eight other family members.

However, the fickle finger of fate has a funny way of turning the tables. At lunch, Barry nor Jacob wanted an alcoholic drink, so the waiter suggested a fruit drink. That sounded good, and they ordered it. They each received this drink,

and if I remember correctly there was a musical serenade included. Happy Birthday, Jacob!

The Week That Was

Wow! The past seven days or so have been full of world wide events. They have made my little blog seem insignificant in comparison. Not to be indifferent to any of these events, I feel that there are people more capable and more knowledgeable to comment on them than me. Plus, that is not the purpose of this blog. Now that I think about it, is my blog supposed to have a purpose? Please don't make me come up with a mission statement.

The past several days, Barry and I have been working on getting our new house more organized.
Two of the projects were our offices. Barry has an office, and I have an office. Our own individual spaces. Our junk mail never has to intermingle again. Life is good.

The problem for Barry was that he was required to help with several parts of my office while I felt he should organize his office on his own. Like I said, life is good. Barry did get his office in shape, and it is looking good.

Barry's Office

I had a prototype for my office. You may remember seeing it here. For my office, Barry had to put up six pegboards, a ribbon holder, and my television. The pegboards and ribbon holder are up. The television is waiting patiently. Notice, I did not use the word patient when talking about myself. But, doesn't this look great?

Jan's office

Happy Birthday

Today is Barry's birthday. Here is a little photo montage of my super guy.

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